Monthly Archives: June 2010

Firmware update fixes the problem Sony has issued a recall for its F11 and CW2 series notebook PCs and is offering a firmware update to fix an overheating problem. According to the company’s notice today: “In rare instances, these notebook …

Here’s another one of those “paste Javascript into your browser” scams that wants to make significant changes to the appearance of your Orkut account. The site in question here is 500-rs-recharge(dot)minhahomepage(dot)com. Click to Enlarge It’s just out of shot, but there’s …

Here’s a curious scam putting users of Google’s Orkut in the crosshairs. There’s a number of sites out there claiming a “free recharge code” (presumably they mean call credits) will be posted to your Orkut scrapbook, but only if you …

Not so long ago, I wrote about something called the Tango Toolbar. While digging around for more information, I actually came across another toolbar called “Tango” which is entirely unrelated (this one is about the dance, not…er…whatever the other one …

Yet another pay-money,-get-followers scheme – right. THOUSANDS of followers! http://letgetmorefollowers.com/index.php?pages=Home See Chris Boyd’s Sunbelt Blog piece from earlier today: “Twitter Followers Lottery” Tom Kelchner  

READ your credit card statements – really The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has said it brought an action in U.S. Federal court that shuts down an identity theft scheme that stole more than $10 million from victims’ credit card accounts …

With the advent of the internet many people seem to forget about privacy and its importance.  Some people claim that privacy is actually dead and has been for a while and we have plenty of examples of people who knowingly …

This is wonderfully cheeky – a website popping up in a lot of Twitter spam called increasethefollowers(dot)info, that wants you to hand over lots of money with no real explanation as to how they’re going to make it worth your while. …

Today I saw a Youtube account with an array of random World Cup moments cobbled together. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what did leap out at me was the likely reason the reason the account exists at all – the World …

  The July print edition of PCWorld carried an (otherwise great) article “How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi” (pp 94) that recommended Hotspot Shield VPN software. Unfortunately the magazine neglected to tell its readers that Hotspot Shield has some …